I particularly liked the fact that Robert-Houdin only got into magic because he asked a bookseller for a book on watchmaking as was his father's profession but was accidentally given a book on conjuring and the rest is history.

Clay ShevlinElite user
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Posted: Nov 25, 2004 12:54 am

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Try Tom Sawyer's Victorian-Age Conjuing Books, a scholarly book chock full of information on books of that era.

Michael BakerEternal Order
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Posted: Nov 25, 2004 02:16 am

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On 2004-11-25 01:54, Clay Shevlin wrote:
Try Tom Sawyer's Victorian-Age Conjuing Books, a scholarly book chock full of information on books of that era.